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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 654

(x) NGC AU | Edward VI (1547-1553), Third Period, Gold Halfcrown or 'Half-Quarter' (Eighth of a) Sovereign, 1551-1553, Tower (London), (m.m.) EDVVARD ' VI • D '. G ' A '. FR '. Z • hIB .' REX •, lozenge stops, half-length figure of King right, holding orb and sceptre, rev. (m.m.) • SCVTVM • FIDEI • PROTEGE • EVM •, crowned square-topped shield dividing E-R, 1.416g [21.8grns], 8h, m.m. tun (Tyssen 1660(c); Murchison = Shepherd = Montagu I, 813 = Murdoch I, 489 = Hilton-Price 116 same dies; Vaughan-Morgan = Raynes 105 same dies; Glendining, 21 July 1911, lot 69 = SNC, October 1911, 91874* = Virgil Brand = Lockett II, 1880* = HCN 68 = AHH Virtual 56 = Simon English 173 same dies; Ryan 255 = Schneider I, 699 same dies; Norweb 913 this coin; North 1930; S.2453), hairline split at 9 o'clock, otherwise uniformly struck on a neater round flan, a pleasing and bolder very fine and of the utmost rarity, but five examples being known, in NGC Black 'Carrington' holder, graded Almost Uncirculated (Cert. #8536700-005)

Provenance

The "Carrington" Collection of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins


M Amstell, by private treaty with "Carrington", November 1986


Mrs Emery May Norweb, Part 3, Spink 56, 19 November 1986, lot 913* - "slight striking crack on edge, otherwise very fine and very rare" - £1,800 [Amstell]


Charles Dabney-Thompson, collection dispersed by Spink, 1965



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Sold for
£6,000

Starting price
£2500